Screen Ekran #17 1928

Constructivist magazine Ekran, issue number 17, 1928. The ‘working newspaper’. Weekly magazine on recent developments in the USSR and abroad. Photos by P Grohovsky for the article "From the Canary Islands", M Alpert for the article "Growth". Illustrations by K Eliseev for the story "Slavic Songs of the South". Konstantin Eliseev was a cartoonist, stage designer, costume designer, painter and graphic artist. Since the 1910s he worked in the field of magazine graphic art. Eliseev performed satirical drawings for various newspapers and magazines, such as Rech (“Speech”), Peterburgsky Zhurnal (“St. Petersburg Magazine”), Teatr I Iskusstvo (“Theatre and Art”). Eliseev took part in exhibitions in the Soviet Russia and abroad: the 6th group exhibition L’Araignée (“Spider”) in Paris (1925), the first exhibition of graphic art (1926), exhibition of works on revolutionary and Soviet themes (1930), the First exhibition of the Union of Soviet Artists (1931), the exhibitions Socialist Construction in visual arts (1931), Caricature in the service of Socialist Formation (1932) in Moscow and others. In 1945 Eliseev has conferred the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) for his services in the field of Soviet art satire. Works by Konstantin Eliseev are in many museum and private collections. Good condition, some rubbings. 14 pages.